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The Best Free Market Buys of the 2008 Fantasy Baseball Season The best players you can snag after the 10th round of your fantasy baseball draft By Justin Hartfield One of the cool things about the capitalist system we have here in America is that advancements in manufacturing, production and technology often trickle down to consumers who wouldn't have necessarily been able to afford such cutting-edge luxuries if the rich didn't pay a premium to pioneer them first. Take computers for instance. Less than a decade ago, an entry level computer was three times as expensive as the current entry level computers (and at least three times slower to boot). Today, we have $200 laptops being shipped to hundreds of thousands of children in Haiti and Afghanistan. The reason starving Africans and oppressed Afghanis have laptops is due chiefly to rich American consumers pioneering better ways to make technology more efficient, and thus less expensive. So in the spirit of free trade , I present the ten best upside players for the 2008 Fantasy Baseball draft. Each of these players will be typically drafted after 10th round of a standard 12 team fantasy baseball league. These players are capable of hitting proverbial "home runs" for your fantasy team (wow that was a lame pun), but they also could just as easily (if not more so) be huge busts. You've been warned, so please keep mid-season hate mail to a minimum. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 10 March 2008 12:23 )
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Patriot Games
Lessons on American foreign policy from the former NFL superpower
By Matt Fay
For a
time in 2007, the New England Patriots appeared to be the very definition of a
superpower. After achieving an undefeated regular season and arriving at
the Super Bowl 18-0, the Patriots seemed poised to make history and become the
first team in the history of the NFL to have a perfect 19-0 season. On the eve
of Super Bowl XLII, few predicted anything but a Patriot victory. Pre-game analysis didn't focus on the
question of whether the Patriots would win the Super Bowl, but rather on
whether the Patriots were in fact the greatest football team ever to take the
field.
The
Patriots' Super Bowl foes, the New York Giants, were as a clear an underdog as
there has been in a Super Bowl. They already had been beaten by the
Patriots at home in the regular season. They had backed their way into the playoffs. They had a
quarterback who was talented but inconsistent. Their defensive line was
strong, but their defensive backfield was easily exploitable. The power
demonstrated by Brady and Moss, with the game's best offensive line providing
the "grunt work" up front, should have made short work of the overmatched
Giants. But they didn't.
The
lesson of the Patriots' downfall is that any superpower, whether on the world
stage or a football field, can fall victim to hubris and be defeated by a
weaker opponent.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 17 March 2008 07:23 )
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An Open Letter to Dana White, President of the Ultimate Fighting Championship
by Justin Hartfield, on sports Dear UFC President Dana White, Congratulations to all of your success in building this more than impressive league. It took many years to build up the fan-base you currently enjoy now. The best fighters in the world dream about playing for the UFC, and its popularity will only be growing exponentially over the next several years at least. Vegas took more bets on MMA events than on boxing last year- enough said. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 19 February 2008 01:33 )
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Solving the Steroid Issue in Baseball
by Justin Hartfield, on sports and culture Right now, some form of steroids are being injected by professional, collegiate, and even high school athletes. Make no mistake, we are in the steroid era. New hormones are constantly being discovered (and subsequently exploited). Yes, it's going to be a long swim before shore. Think English Channel. Realizing that the journey of a thousand strokes has to start with an initial cupping of the hand, Major League Baseball has predictably toughened penalties. They increased suspensions on first-time offenders, and added random offseason drug testing. The ban, by even the most optimistic of reports, has only been partially successful in its aim of eliminating steroids from the game. However, nearly all of the MVP-caliber players suspected of steroid use have gone virtually untouched. And justifiably so, as the Players Union would never allow the front office to ban players greatly suspected of using illegal performance enhancing drugs through circumstantial evidence and unconfirmed allegations. |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 07 March 2008 09:10 )
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What Tiger Woods Can Teach Us About Politics
by Justin Hartfield, on politics
When progress happens in politics, it happens slowly or not at all. Quick and dramatic changes in policy are mostly reserved for revolutions and sweeping regime changes. But if you want to change the world permanently for the better, you've got to start slowly. Which is why this institution has always promoted pragmatic change.
For real life examples on the importance of patience and systematic change look no further than to the worlds best known athlete, Tiger Woods.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 09 May 2008 08:46 )
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Microsoft To Produce BCS Computers
Could the college football system get any worse?
Apparently unsatisfied with the way they completely screwed college football the past few seasons, the Bowl Championship Series announced this week that it was offering Microsoft a contract to build a Windows operating system to run the BCS computers.
"We're confident that no company gave us the possibility of committing grave college football injustices more than Microsoft," said BCS coordinator Kevin Wieberg in a press conference. "All of us at the BCS have PCs at home, and we all noticed how nothing was done correctly on them. We put our minds together and realized that Microsoft was perfect to run the BCS."
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 15 March 2008 20:54 )
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Just Win, Baby
What to do about overpaid CEOs
Justin Hartfield, for the editors In the sports world, history makes a distinction between average coaches and legendary coaches. There are some coaches, like John Wooden or Bill Parcells, who seem to win regardless of the all the perceived negatives that surround them. Despite not always having the best talent, or the access to the most money, or the best situation, they find a way to put up winning and even championship seasons. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 07 January 2008 09:53 )
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